Hi Guys

here goes with my attempt to paint my set of busts. Here is the progress so far. The first phot shows the right had torso painted and in place:



In the next photo I have finished the torso of the righthand figure as well as adding his arm. The torso of the front figure is partly painted and just put temporarily in place.

I used AK paints and for the greatcoat I used a stippling technique to try in create some irregularity to represent the rough texture of the coat.



Tonight's target is to work on the front torso and his 2 arms.

Petet

Nice work so far, Peter. I like the lettering & trim on the railway carriage door, very neat & precise.

A very good start.

I've got this on order, so following

Likewise captnenglish and looking forward to getting my copy. Lovely start Peter. Can see this being on Nap’s radar but not sure where the medals would go

Neal

Such a good idea - looking forward to seeing this one develop (Southern Region
train too ....excellent!)

Mike

Hi Guys

thanks for all the positive comments.

today I started work in the front left arm, and the newspaper.



if you wonder how I did the news print: I din't paint it, I googled front pages from May/June 1940, cut'n'pasted some into Word, scaled them down and printed them. To save others the job, I have created a pdf of the\em and loaded it as a downloadable file under the 'usefull stuff' tab of my Sarnia Miniatures website.
Peter

Great idea about the newspaper, Peter!

A bit more progress since Saturday, despite work getting in the way:




i will need to refine and balance some areas of the battlecdress but that will be after then heads are in place.

Peter

Thanks guys.
Nap - I agree, I think I will lighted the rear figure and emphasis the highlights on the front figure. With hindsight I should have included some nco rank stripes to breakup the plain arms.

peter

Maybe a touch more green to the greatcoat....?

A slight change of subject - a WW2 cartoon which has been updated.

at the end of may Guernsey got into the position of having no actice COVID cases and this 1945 cartoon:


was updated to this:

Hi

here is the result of this afternoons work - refined the colours of the torsos. As suggested a little green to the greatcoat, and darkened the rear figure.



Some of the feedback about the set is that it would have been nice for one of the figures to have a helmet, something I decided against when I designed and sculpted the figures. However thinking about it I have decided to include one from an earlier bust.

Since this helmet was not designed for any of these heads it is very much a bonus and fitting it to one of the heads will require some surgery removing the top of the head. i realise that chopping the top of of one of the heads may be a little daunting so as well as including the helmet I am including a second head for the front figure.
Peter

I like that idea.

That is about the only positive thing about being a widower, no SWMBO Nah, truth be told my Missus was very supportive of the hobby.